Dionysius the Areopagite (Pseudo) (500)

Major work

•          Celestial Hierarchy

Importance

•          Was a vessel by which the Christian Platonism of the early church was transmitted to the Middle Ages

•          Paved the way for Christian mysticism

•          His writings became authority for the Eastern church

•          Argued for a hierarchical pattern of the universe

•          Believed in humanity’s eventual deification